Close cable ties easily and open

In order to create order in drawers and boxes, I store many small utensils bundled up. These are cable ties, which are available in different sizes.

They can also be used to get into the tangle of cables at work or behind media furniture, and you can easily open or loosen them at any time to remove a cable.

For cable ties, most people think first of all that tie-down binders can no longer be loosened. But that's not how it is, because a cable tie has two sides and thus offers two uses:


If you look closely at a cable tie, you can see that the points are only on the side where the tail is flat. The other side has no teeth.

Do you push the cable tie? Wrong? around by the tail, so from the side at which the tail is up, it can be easily solved at any time and can be used as a loop.

The side with the teeth is then outside. On photo 2 you can see it very well.

Editor's tip:
At Amazon, there are also resealable cable ties in the offer? Reusable Kabelbinderset

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